CATASTROPHE: Flood

With the great Mississippi flood of 1927
quietly seeping into the Gulf of Mexico, attention turned toward
preventing the river from ever again driving valley-dwellers from their
homes in hundreds of thousands. It appears certain that the levee
system will continue to carry the main burden of flood prevention, but
various adjuncts to it have been insistently urged.

Reforestation. A frequently brought forward measure of flood-control has
been reforestation. One objection to this scheme is that the
Mississippi went on one of the greatest floods of its history in 1844
when the valley was thickly forested.